HOLOGRAPHIC ARCHETYPES
Archetypes * Complexes * Serendipity * Noetics * Negentropy * Synchronicity * Fractals * Chaos * Complexity * Zero Point * Holism * Nonlocality * Entanglement * Complex Adaptive Systems * Entrainment * Memetics * Genetics * Biophotons * Consciousness * Transformation
ENLIGHTENING HOLOGRAMS - INTEGRATED SCIENCE
Physics is Not Beyond You
YOU Make It Matter
The Whole World Is About You
by Iona Miller, (c)2014
The Light of Nature
All phenomena are known in empty nature. Eastern traditions say the mind can be emancipated by emptiness. Now physics and depth psychology are inclined to agree. This radical emptiness is the primordial ground of creation -- universal consciousness beyond prespacetime, which forms the ground for our individual consciousness which transduces and filters the massive data glut of the whole realm of being. In our brains this process is mediated spin and biophotonic light (Hu and Wu)
All dependently originating forms are essentially conceptual constructs from potential reality -- these are holographic archetypes. New creation is possible at any time. We don't claim non-existence, we merely remove claims for existing existents. The Void is not devoid. Voidness does not mean nothingness, but rather that all things lack intrinsic reality, intrinsic objectivity, intrinsic identity or intrinsic referentiality. Lacking such static essence or substance does not make them not exist —- it makes them thoroughly relative.
Meditatively and experimentally contemplating Self, non-Self and Emptiness are a Way to return to our primordial awareness - the naked reality of the Nature mind, much as the alchemists fed their process and quest for the Unus Mundus by contemplating Nature through their alchemical experiments. In this process Nature, not merely our science is the ultimate guide. Jung called the ultimate reality beyond matter and psyche the unus mundus, following the alchemists. Buddha-nature has been described as a positive expression of emptiness, abiding core reality — empty of all mutability and error, fully present within all beings.
The spiritual path is ultimately not about our personal quest, but rather about participating consciously in something far greater than ourselves. When we dwell in the expanded worldview, the synchronistic life becomes more of a steady-state than an occasional numinous novelty. Creative life becomes synchronistic, much like an altered state of consciousness. Miracles seem to happen and creative work is accelerated and deepend, in totally unforseeable ways. The path opens to awakened or renewed consciousness. Coherent consciousness can be liked to a linear accelerator for our being.
The god-image of mysticism and synchronicity are the same, today emerging through the fusion of science and spirituality. Unifying symbols of the self or center (Mandalas, Seal of Solomon, Philosopher's Stone, Flower of Life, Hierosgamos, etc.) reflect the objective psyche or the collective unconscious and are symbolic equivalents of the unus mundus and synchronicity is its parapsychological aspect. Jung sought a unified psychophysical reality behind our artificial split into matter and spirit, transcending the spacetime barrier. The archetypal basis of the theoretical assumptions of physics explains not only phenomena but their deeper symbolic nature.
In the process of continuous creation from the virtual vacuum flux, archetypes are the filters of the creation of forms, much like our senses are filters of perception. Archetypes are the constants of nature. Psychologically, emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. It is explicitly used as a middle way between eternalism and nihilism, abiding radical nondualism. It does not specifically refer to an ultimate, universal, or absolute nature of reality. The virtual vacuum flux of physics, the prespacetime field correlates with the primordial reality from which phenomenal reality springs or the changeless reality empty of only that which is other than itself.
Hu and Wu describe spin (therefore polarity) as the ultimate mind pixel. Spin-mediated consciousness (neural membrane nuclear spin ensembles) theory that says spin is the linchpin between the mind and brain, that is, spin is the mind-pixel related to quantum entanglement. He and Dr. Wu have discovered evidence of nonlocal effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement and evidence of nonlocal chemical, thermal and gravitational effects which support the notion of a quantum brain and demonstrate nonlocal signaling and nonlocal gravity.
He has recently also proposed, in collaboration with Wu, the principle of existence which is a theory of everything based on prespacetime (Consciousness). This theory describes the transduction of individual consciousness from primordial or universal consciousness. They argue that quantum entanglement originates from the primordial spin processes in non-spatial and non-temporal pre-spacetime, implying genuine interconnectedness and inseparableness of once interacting quantum entities. This plays a vital roles in biology and consciousness.
Natural Philosophy
The study of natural philosophy seeks to explore the cosmos by any means necessary to understand the universe. Regrettably, the inductive principle of natural philosophy has been dismissed in the 'mob rule' culture of science today. And modern philosophy may be the culprit. The corruption in philosophy seems to have spread from Immanuel Kant's 18th century philosophy that led to 'positivism,' which limits the goals of science to merely describing regularities in the behavior of appearances.
Multidisciplinary studies herald the return of the natural philosopher. For example, Jungian psychology with its alchemical metaphors and dynamics provides comprehensive models for uniting psyche and physics, psyche and matter, and demonstrating the indissoluble weld that binds them. It radically revisions the mind/body split, healing that which should never have been torn asunder.
In our inquiries when we go beyond a certain depth in psychology or physics, we enter the realm of the ultimate mysteries of life. The mystic veil of the starry firmament parts revealing the underlying matrix of creation, the luminous ground of the virtual vacuum -- the void created by the zero point radiative fluctuation of matter and antimatter, the void that gives birth to all images and form.
In the modem scientific age, science and humanity is in search of ultimate truth. Sustained efforts are being made from both the ends of the spectrum but such efforts are still unfolding. Science and humanity seek to achieve ultimate truth with their limited knowledge of mind and matter i.e. the ordinary consciousness: states of waking and sleep. Ultimate truth is not matter nor is it material -- it is closer to the quintessence, formerly called Spirit. It can be realized by entering into altered or higher states of consciousness, but permeates daily life, as well.
Understanding the hidden language of archetypes helps us translate the dynamics of our Being and Becoming. It is this inner "kernel" or "seed" of Life that informs us we are really after. Quantum mechanics reveals stunning secrets of nature, but it is a science of frozen frames, snapshots of measurement, rather than a process-oriented science that shows how they fit seamlessly together.
Natural existence is best understood in terms of processes rather than things — of modes of change rather than fixed stabilities. For processists, change of every sort — physical, organic, psychological — is the pervasive and predominant feature of the real. A sequentially structured sequence of successive stages or phases has three factors:
Jung states that both myth and science reveal truths, however mythic realities are understood in a different method than scientific truths. He also states that both myths and the elemental world are naturally occurring phenomena. In many instances mythology and religion function simultaneously. However, a major distinction between the two traditions is that mythology is defined as an adaptive narration, while dogmatic perspective restricts religion to a lived mythic model. As a lived mythology, religion is a lens or paradigm through which to view the world.
Specific examples of the relationship between myth and religion are better understood through the narratives surrounding the mystic arts, such as Qabalah, Magick, and Alchemy. The science-art of alchemy metaphorically relates physical phenomenon to the sacred, uniting objective and subjective apprehension. It generates and regenerates myth and symbolic experience.
Alpha & Omega
Things are not what they seem -- just space and wave motions.The universe floats on a vast sea of light, whose invisible power provides the resistance that gives matter its dynamics and feeling of solidity. All matter is interconnected by quantum waves, a dynamic coherent whole in-formation.
There is evidence for the holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in recent years -- the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field), the psi field of psychic phenomena, Ervin Laszlo's Akashic field, and the morphic field proposed by Rupert Sheldrake.
The notion of resonance has been proposed for individual tuning to Jung's collective unconscious. If a holographic image has many different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of the same frequency to stand out. That's because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another -- just as two musical strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. Resonance may also explain how each of us interact with psi or Akashic fields... picking up only that with which we personally "resonate."
Fields of Meaning
When physicist Wolfgang Pauli collaborated with Jung, he encouraged us to find “a neutral, or unitarian language in which every concept we use is applicable as well to the unconscious as to matter, in order to overcome this wrong view that the unconscious psyche and matter are two things.” Psyche and soma are indissolubly wed in nature and our nature, and must be considered in an adequate account of reality.
Is the co-occurrence of events within the same field of meaning a fundamental reason why things tend to happen? Does each individual's resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limit what they can perceive? Such models may just eventually be shown to be belief systems of our era, whose roots we recognize from Theosophy. Jung almost never championed one set of archetypal claims at the expense of another, though he was an uncanny intuitive trendspotter.
Jung felt that the task of individuation involved resisting these collective forces and developing a critical response to them. Any collective movement which identifies with an archetypal process is, virtually by definition, not going to accord with Jungian taste, which is based on the ethics and aesthetics of individuation. Jung's attack on what he called "identification with the collective psyche" is conveniently and deliberately ignored by all those New Age therapists, consultants, advocates, and shamans who like to freely celebrate and even "worship" the contemporary version of constellated archetypal contents.
If the New Age appears Jungian it is not because it has used Jung, but because it draws its life from and incessantly parades a particularly strong archetypal current that maps this psychospiritual territory. The same subjective evaluations and claims have been made for esoterics such as astrology, depth psychology, and for the Standard Model in physics. People claim they use them because "they work." Archetypal correlations, a heightened level of communication between unconscious and conscious coordination, are radically participatory in nature, shaped by relevant circumstantial factors and human response.
The precise nature of such resonance, frequency or vibration has not been scientifically described, but merely suggested as jargon for what we don't and perhaps cannot know. The hypothesis is that different emotions and therefore attitudes have different frequencies. This is not to say that disease and other psychobiological process do not share an electromagnetic signature, but it is far from a total description. But the simple feedback process of self-reflection can perhaps be more directly effective at modulating behavior and experience.
Such mimetic notions are popular because they "confirm" certain belief sets, which include personal and collective memes. They are part of the self-confirmatory search that reassures us we not only comprehend our experience, but are somehow "blessed" within that process, which may just be self-delusion. We continue to reach toward Truth, toward wholeness, both as Quest and palliative, still "placating" the gods.
Nevertheless, speculative models may point us in the right direction -- toward ever-more primordial subquantal levels of observation, beyond the kaleidoscope of the "content" of our consciousness toward its fundamental nature. Nevertheless, such narratives are being constructed in heterodox physics and enjoy wide acceptance from people who comprehend them or not. Artists are often inspired by concepts from physics. At least they open our speculative thinking, taking us from the known toward the Unknown. We turn to the Void for our answers.
Autonomous Psychic Contents
Such models have been applied to healing and disease processes and linked to placebo effect and the meaning of disease. Jung made the strong statement that "the gods [archetypes] have become diseases" due to their relativization in society. The fundamentally psychosomatic nature of disease manifests in both the psyche (mind) and soma (body). Jung's idea of spiritual authority rests on individual experience, on the need for cultural transformation, and unorthodox ways of achieving unity with the Cosmos.
“We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders of the brains of politicians and journalists who unwillingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.” (Jung, Cw 13, par. 54)
A physical or psychological breakdown allows us to leave the track of production and social obligation to focus on healing. Hillman clarified by suggesting, "Soul enters only via symptoms, via outcast phenomena like the imagination of artists or alchemy or “primitives,” or of course, disguised as psychopathology. That’s what Jung meant when he said the Gods have become diseases: the only way back for them in a Christian world is via the outcast." Do we have to be broken before we heed the call of our spiritual center, the holistic field of the imaginal?
Perhaps this is analogous to Jung's realization in his Red Book era in the statement the "entanglement is your madness." The personality disorders should be included in his notion of conversion. Operating beyond our consciousness, the gods return confounded with the shadow as pathologies, through the syzygy as relational problems, and with the self as overblown metaphysical notions and literalized pseudo-scientific theories. "Concretization" is an even more difficult problem at the collective than individual level. It is the root of intractable fundamentalism, in fact, all -isms.
The main difference between depth psychologies and quantum physics [as well as esoterics] is that psychologists base their approach in the metaphorical rather than literal nature of reality. To take such material literally is considered a gross error, a misnavigation of the imaginal. This is an often overlooked but major difference in worldview and approach to phenomenological experience.
Systems philosopher and integral theorist Dr. Ervin Laszlo says the universe is an information field which is not only ‘the original source of all things’ in time and space but is also ‘the constant and enduring memory of the universe’. An interconnecting cosmic field links man and matter and continually affects everything and everyone. ‘It literally conveys all the information of life itself.’
Past, present and future flow together in the zero-point energy field. Linear time is an artifact of our nervous system. Healer Edgar Cayce believed the Akashic Records contained a history of every soul from the dawn of creation, connecting us to each other. The records are impressed or encoded into energy/information. Our choices continually rewrite them, modulating thoughts and emotion. The Akashic records (information domain) not only store everything in the past of an individual but also contain all the future possibilities and potentials for our lives. Einstein put it concisely: "Space and time are modes in which we think, not conditions in which we live."
ENLIGHTENING HOLOGRAMS - INTEGRATED SCIENCE
Physics is Not Beyond You
YOU Make It Matter
The Whole World Is About You
by Iona Miller, (c)2014
The Light of Nature
All phenomena are known in empty nature. Eastern traditions say the mind can be emancipated by emptiness. Now physics and depth psychology are inclined to agree. This radical emptiness is the primordial ground of creation -- universal consciousness beyond prespacetime, which forms the ground for our individual consciousness which transduces and filters the massive data glut of the whole realm of being. In our brains this process is mediated spin and biophotonic light (Hu and Wu)
All dependently originating forms are essentially conceptual constructs from potential reality -- these are holographic archetypes. New creation is possible at any time. We don't claim non-existence, we merely remove claims for existing existents. The Void is not devoid. Voidness does not mean nothingness, but rather that all things lack intrinsic reality, intrinsic objectivity, intrinsic identity or intrinsic referentiality. Lacking such static essence or substance does not make them not exist —- it makes them thoroughly relative.
Meditatively and experimentally contemplating Self, non-Self and Emptiness are a Way to return to our primordial awareness - the naked reality of the Nature mind, much as the alchemists fed their process and quest for the Unus Mundus by contemplating Nature through their alchemical experiments. In this process Nature, not merely our science is the ultimate guide. Jung called the ultimate reality beyond matter and psyche the unus mundus, following the alchemists. Buddha-nature has been described as a positive expression of emptiness, abiding core reality — empty of all mutability and error, fully present within all beings.
The spiritual path is ultimately not about our personal quest, but rather about participating consciously in something far greater than ourselves. When we dwell in the expanded worldview, the synchronistic life becomes more of a steady-state than an occasional numinous novelty. Creative life becomes synchronistic, much like an altered state of consciousness. Miracles seem to happen and creative work is accelerated and deepend, in totally unforseeable ways. The path opens to awakened or renewed consciousness. Coherent consciousness can be liked to a linear accelerator for our being.
The god-image of mysticism and synchronicity are the same, today emerging through the fusion of science and spirituality. Unifying symbols of the self or center (Mandalas, Seal of Solomon, Philosopher's Stone, Flower of Life, Hierosgamos, etc.) reflect the objective psyche or the collective unconscious and are symbolic equivalents of the unus mundus and synchronicity is its parapsychological aspect. Jung sought a unified psychophysical reality behind our artificial split into matter and spirit, transcending the spacetime barrier. The archetypal basis of the theoretical assumptions of physics explains not only phenomena but their deeper symbolic nature.
In the process of continuous creation from the virtual vacuum flux, archetypes are the filters of the creation of forms, much like our senses are filters of perception. Archetypes are the constants of nature. Psychologically, emptiness is the relinquishing of all views. It is explicitly used as a middle way between eternalism and nihilism, abiding radical nondualism. It does not specifically refer to an ultimate, universal, or absolute nature of reality. The virtual vacuum flux of physics, the prespacetime field correlates with the primordial reality from which phenomenal reality springs or the changeless reality empty of only that which is other than itself.
Hu and Wu describe spin (therefore polarity) as the ultimate mind pixel. Spin-mediated consciousness (neural membrane nuclear spin ensembles) theory that says spin is the linchpin between the mind and brain, that is, spin is the mind-pixel related to quantum entanglement. He and Dr. Wu have discovered evidence of nonlocal effects of chemical substances on the brain produced through quantum entanglement and evidence of nonlocal chemical, thermal and gravitational effects which support the notion of a quantum brain and demonstrate nonlocal signaling and nonlocal gravity.
He has recently also proposed, in collaboration with Wu, the principle of existence which is a theory of everything based on prespacetime (Consciousness). This theory describes the transduction of individual consciousness from primordial or universal consciousness. They argue that quantum entanglement originates from the primordial spin processes in non-spatial and non-temporal pre-spacetime, implying genuine interconnectedness and inseparableness of once interacting quantum entities. This plays a vital roles in biology and consciousness.
Natural Philosophy
The study of natural philosophy seeks to explore the cosmos by any means necessary to understand the universe. Regrettably, the inductive principle of natural philosophy has been dismissed in the 'mob rule' culture of science today. And modern philosophy may be the culprit. The corruption in philosophy seems to have spread from Immanuel Kant's 18th century philosophy that led to 'positivism,' which limits the goals of science to merely describing regularities in the behavior of appearances.
Multidisciplinary studies herald the return of the natural philosopher. For example, Jungian psychology with its alchemical metaphors and dynamics provides comprehensive models for uniting psyche and physics, psyche and matter, and demonstrating the indissoluble weld that binds them. It radically revisions the mind/body split, healing that which should never have been torn asunder.
In our inquiries when we go beyond a certain depth in psychology or physics, we enter the realm of the ultimate mysteries of life. The mystic veil of the starry firmament parts revealing the underlying matrix of creation, the luminous ground of the virtual vacuum -- the void created by the zero point radiative fluctuation of matter and antimatter, the void that gives birth to all images and form.
In the modem scientific age, science and humanity is in search of ultimate truth. Sustained efforts are being made from both the ends of the spectrum but such efforts are still unfolding. Science and humanity seek to achieve ultimate truth with their limited knowledge of mind and matter i.e. the ordinary consciousness: states of waking and sleep. Ultimate truth is not matter nor is it material -- it is closer to the quintessence, formerly called Spirit. It can be realized by entering into altered or higher states of consciousness, but permeates daily life, as well.
Understanding the hidden language of archetypes helps us translate the dynamics of our Being and Becoming. It is this inner "kernel" or "seed" of Life that informs us we are really after. Quantum mechanics reveals stunning secrets of nature, but it is a science of frozen frames, snapshots of measurement, rather than a process-oriented science that shows how they fit seamlessly together.
Natural existence is best understood in terms of processes rather than things — of modes of change rather than fixed stabilities. For processists, change of every sort — physical, organic, psychological — is the pervasive and predominant feature of the real. A sequentially structured sequence of successive stages or phases has three factors:
- A process is a complex — a unity of distinct stages or phases. A process is always a matter of now this, now that.
- This complex has a certain temporal coherence and unity, and that processes accordingly have an ineliminably temporal dimension.
- A process has a structure, a formal generic format in virtue of which every concrete process is equipped with a shape or format.
Jung states that both myth and science reveal truths, however mythic realities are understood in a different method than scientific truths. He also states that both myths and the elemental world are naturally occurring phenomena. In many instances mythology and religion function simultaneously. However, a major distinction between the two traditions is that mythology is defined as an adaptive narration, while dogmatic perspective restricts religion to a lived mythic model. As a lived mythology, religion is a lens or paradigm through which to view the world.
Specific examples of the relationship between myth and religion are better understood through the narratives surrounding the mystic arts, such as Qabalah, Magick, and Alchemy. The science-art of alchemy metaphorically relates physical phenomenon to the sacred, uniting objective and subjective apprehension. It generates and regenerates myth and symbolic experience.
Alpha & Omega
Things are not what they seem -- just space and wave motions.The universe floats on a vast sea of light, whose invisible power provides the resistance that gives matter its dynamics and feeling of solidity. All matter is interconnected by quantum waves, a dynamic coherent whole in-formation.
There is evidence for the holographic nature of nonstandard fields that have been proposed in recent years -- the zero-point field (a candidate for the unified field), the psi field of psychic phenomena, Ervin Laszlo's Akashic field, and the morphic field proposed by Rupert Sheldrake.
The notion of resonance has been proposed for individual tuning to Jung's collective unconscious. If a holographic image has many different holograms embedded within it, shining a laser of a specific frequency upon it will cause only those holograms made with lasers of the same frequency to stand out. That's because things with the same vibration naturally resonate and reinforce one another -- just as two musical strings at the same pitch resonate with one another. Resonance may also explain how each of us interact with psi or Akashic fields... picking up only that with which we personally "resonate."
Fields of Meaning
When physicist Wolfgang Pauli collaborated with Jung, he encouraged us to find “a neutral, or unitarian language in which every concept we use is applicable as well to the unconscious as to matter, in order to overcome this wrong view that the unconscious psyche and matter are two things.” Psyche and soma are indissolubly wed in nature and our nature, and must be considered in an adequate account of reality.
Is the co-occurrence of events within the same field of meaning a fundamental reason why things tend to happen? Does each individual's resonant frequency, determined by their life experience, physical body, and energy body, limit what they can perceive? Such models may just eventually be shown to be belief systems of our era, whose roots we recognize from Theosophy. Jung almost never championed one set of archetypal claims at the expense of another, though he was an uncanny intuitive trendspotter.
Jung felt that the task of individuation involved resisting these collective forces and developing a critical response to them. Any collective movement which identifies with an archetypal process is, virtually by definition, not going to accord with Jungian taste, which is based on the ethics and aesthetics of individuation. Jung's attack on what he called "identification with the collective psyche" is conveniently and deliberately ignored by all those New Age therapists, consultants, advocates, and shamans who like to freely celebrate and even "worship" the contemporary version of constellated archetypal contents.
If the New Age appears Jungian it is not because it has used Jung, but because it draws its life from and incessantly parades a particularly strong archetypal current that maps this psychospiritual territory. The same subjective evaluations and claims have been made for esoterics such as astrology, depth psychology, and for the Standard Model in physics. People claim they use them because "they work." Archetypal correlations, a heightened level of communication between unconscious and conscious coordination, are radically participatory in nature, shaped by relevant circumstantial factors and human response.
The precise nature of such resonance, frequency or vibration has not been scientifically described, but merely suggested as jargon for what we don't and perhaps cannot know. The hypothesis is that different emotions and therefore attitudes have different frequencies. This is not to say that disease and other psychobiological process do not share an electromagnetic signature, but it is far from a total description. But the simple feedback process of self-reflection can perhaps be more directly effective at modulating behavior and experience.
Such mimetic notions are popular because they "confirm" certain belief sets, which include personal and collective memes. They are part of the self-confirmatory search that reassures us we not only comprehend our experience, but are somehow "blessed" within that process, which may just be self-delusion. We continue to reach toward Truth, toward wholeness, both as Quest and palliative, still "placating" the gods.
Nevertheless, speculative models may point us in the right direction -- toward ever-more primordial subquantal levels of observation, beyond the kaleidoscope of the "content" of our consciousness toward its fundamental nature. Nevertheless, such narratives are being constructed in heterodox physics and enjoy wide acceptance from people who comprehend them or not. Artists are often inspired by concepts from physics. At least they open our speculative thinking, taking us from the known toward the Unknown. We turn to the Void for our answers.
Autonomous Psychic Contents
Such models have been applied to healing and disease processes and linked to placebo effect and the meaning of disease. Jung made the strong statement that "the gods [archetypes] have become diseases" due to their relativization in society. The fundamentally psychosomatic nature of disease manifests in both the psyche (mind) and soma (body). Jung's idea of spiritual authority rests on individual experience, on the need for cultural transformation, and unorthodox ways of achieving unity with the Cosmos.
“We think we can congratulate ourselves on having already reached such a pinnacle of clarity, imagining that we have left all these phantasmal gods far behind. But what we have left behind are only verbal spectres, not the psychic facts that were responsible for the birth of the gods. We are still as much possessed by autonomous psychic contents as if they were Olympians. Today they are called phobias, obsessions, and so forth; in a word, neurotic symptoms. The gods have become diseases; Zeus no longer rules Olympus but rather the solar plexus, and produces curious specimens for the doctor’s consulting room, or disorders of the brains of politicians and journalists who unwillingly let loose psychic epidemics on the world.” (Jung, Cw 13, par. 54)
A physical or psychological breakdown allows us to leave the track of production and social obligation to focus on healing. Hillman clarified by suggesting, "Soul enters only via symptoms, via outcast phenomena like the imagination of artists or alchemy or “primitives,” or of course, disguised as psychopathology. That’s what Jung meant when he said the Gods have become diseases: the only way back for them in a Christian world is via the outcast." Do we have to be broken before we heed the call of our spiritual center, the holistic field of the imaginal?
Perhaps this is analogous to Jung's realization in his Red Book era in the statement the "entanglement is your madness." The personality disorders should be included in his notion of conversion. Operating beyond our consciousness, the gods return confounded with the shadow as pathologies, through the syzygy as relational problems, and with the self as overblown metaphysical notions and literalized pseudo-scientific theories. "Concretization" is an even more difficult problem at the collective than individual level. It is the root of intractable fundamentalism, in fact, all -isms.
The main difference between depth psychologies and quantum physics [as well as esoterics] is that psychologists base their approach in the metaphorical rather than literal nature of reality. To take such material literally is considered a gross error, a misnavigation of the imaginal. This is an often overlooked but major difference in worldview and approach to phenomenological experience.
Systems philosopher and integral theorist Dr. Ervin Laszlo says the universe is an information field which is not only ‘the original source of all things’ in time and space but is also ‘the constant and enduring memory of the universe’. An interconnecting cosmic field links man and matter and continually affects everything and everyone. ‘It literally conveys all the information of life itself.’
Past, present and future flow together in the zero-point energy field. Linear time is an artifact of our nervous system. Healer Edgar Cayce believed the Akashic Records contained a history of every soul from the dawn of creation, connecting us to each other. The records are impressed or encoded into energy/information. Our choices continually rewrite them, modulating thoughts and emotion. The Akashic records (information domain) not only store everything in the past of an individual but also contain all the future possibilities and potentials for our lives. Einstein put it concisely: "Space and time are modes in which we think, not conditions in which we live."
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